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"Hunger ... it's worse than sad. It's like torture," Shiloh Stanley said as she stared across the room with a distant look in her eyes. Stanley, 34, grew up in a home where money was a constant struggle.

Tucked away at the northeast tip of Amarillo, Bishop DeFalco Retreat Center is a 10-acre oasis of peace and serenity. "We're in the country, but we're in the city," said Deacon Robert F. Smith, executive director of the center.

High Plains Food Bank is gearing up for its 18th annual Together We Can Holiday Food Drive.
The drive will run from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday at Market Street United, 2530 S. Georgia St.

Men, women and children from all walks of life gathered at Salvation Army, 400 S. Harrison St., to serve and be served a Thanksgiving meal Thursday afternoon.
"The goal is that our guests - not clients, not homeless people - would feel special.

Want to know what it takes to win Terlingua International Chili Championship, "the granddaddy of all chili cook-offs"?
Grease is the word. Or at least that's how the Pink Ladies, a team from Amarillo and Dimmit, did it.

Amarillo once again will host the Capitol Christmas tree on Wednesday as it cruises across the country on a 23-day trek to Washington, D.C., where it will be placed on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

T wenty-eight percent of the Bible was prophecy when it was written, said Jimmy Phillips, who has been teaching prophecy seminars in Amarillo for four years.
Some prophecies have been fulfilled, he said, and some are still to come.

Officials at Owens Corning's Amarillo plant are cautiously optimistic that 68 workers furloughed last month will be able to return to work, but the company doesn't know if or when employees would return to their jobs. "We notified the 68 employees Oct.

Mary Schooler woke up in early February 1994 with a pain in her left breast, so she went to see her doctor as soon as she could. Her first mammogram was negative, but because of her family history of cancer she was urged to get a second opinion.

Sherrill Boyd sat at a table in the coffee shop at Hastings Entertainment on Southwest 45th Avenue. She had a copy of her book, "Tares Among Us: Masquerading as True Believers," open in front of her as she signed it in bold, swirling cursive.

Every month since June, churches across the city have put aside their differences to pray together for the common good of preserving religious freedom.
On Thursday, First Baptist Church, 1208 S. Polk St.

Erin Smith's electric drill whirred loudly Friday as she worked on the playground at the Maverick Boys and Girls Club. "Look at you, Erin!" said Leasa Salazar, the community impact coordinator for United Way.

When Jake Earls helped plant vegetable beds at Advo Companies Inc. on Sept. 17 as a part of his Eagle Scout project, he didn't expect it to impact him like it did.
"It was just supposed to be an Eagle project, you know?" said Earls, 15.

Mary Barlow was sure she was invincible. Until she got breast cancer. The director of corporate communication and marketing at Baptist St. Anthony's Health System said she discovered a dimple in her right breast in June 2005.

It was sundown on a work night, but it might as well have been Sunday at The Door Christian Fellowship Church in north Amarillo because they choir could be heard from the parking lot, singing praise to Jesus.

The 22nd annual Susan G. Komen Great Amarillo Race for the Cure, which helps promote awareness, education and early detection of breast cancer, is scheduled for Saturday in downtown Amarillo.
Registration begins at 6:30 a.m.

Senator John Cornyn was in Fort Worth last week for a round table discussion about a bill pending in Congress, the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry Act, which supporters said would help eliminate the national backlog of untested rape kits.

A wave of red, white and blue balloons lifted into the sky in honor of fallen soldier Genaro Bedoy, and a chorus of sobs rose from the crowd standing on the River Road High School football field Friday evening.

In Medi Park, a hymn rose up from a dozen Jewish Amarilloans gathered on the bridge Monday to pray and worship together at the end of Rosh Hashanah - the day on the Hebrew calendar that marks the start of the new year.

At the end of the Rev. Scott Raef's first homily at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, he looked out at the congregation. He felt peaceful - admittedly a little overwhelmed, but confident about the direction of the parish.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" might have started as a dirty secret, but it quickly became a cultural phenomenon that left many critics and cultural observers openly baffled.
In March, the racy romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L.

The Honor Guards, the Amarillo Fire Department and the Amarillo Police Department will host a remembrance ceremony Tuesday to honor lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The ceremony, set for 8:30 a.m.

John "Yao Han" Eder, 69, sat in his art studio at The Galleries at Sunset Center surrounded by dozens of intricate Chinese paintings. He talked about Chinese art techniques as he ground a black ink stick into a small bowl of water.

LeAnn, Christian and Emily Morgan sat on Emily's bed in one of the group homes at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. LeAnn was mothering her siblings, as usual. And, as usual, they were giving her a hard time about it.